A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a black-hole? Actually this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.
Jul 5, 2008 - 2:11:23 PM
Guwahati, India : Assam's flood-prone districts of Dhemaji and Lakhimpur have been hit by a second wave of flood following heavy rainfall in the catchment areas.
Jul 5, 2008 - 2:01:36 PM
What’s being described as “a fireball in the sky” was seen as far away as the state line and Temecula, and spotted somewhere around the San Bernardino Mountains, but officials could not identify what it was. Countless people, including fire personnel, from the Nevada state line to Temecula reported seeing a brightly colored streak falling from the northwestern sky.
Jul 5, 2008 - 12:52:20 PM
MIAMI, Florida - Tropical Storm Bertha was expected to become the 2008 Atlantic storm season's first hurricane as it steamed toward the United States over open waters between Bermuda and the Caribbean islands, U.S. weather forecasters said on Saturday.
Jul 5, 2008 - 11:10:30 AM
RUSSIA - Yesterday's quake which hit near Komandorsie, Russia has been revised from a 7.5 to a larger 7.7 mag. quake. Three aftershock earthquakes have been reported in the northeast of Russia over the past 24 hours. The strongest of them occurred in the Laptev Sea and measured 5.3 on the open-ended Richter scale.
Jul 5, 2008 - 11:05:10 AM
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake has rocked Tokyo, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake struck at 4.49pm Tokyo time (8.49am Irish time), with its epicentre located off the Pacific coast some 170kms northeast of Tokyo.
Jul 5, 2008 - 10:46:09 AM
RUSSIA - Large 7.5 earthquake hits near Russia. No damage or injuries have come in at this time. Geographic coordinates: 53.890N, 153.033E. Magnitude: 7.5 Mb. Depth: 605 km. Universal Time (UTC): 5 Jul 2008 02:12:03. Time near the Epicenter: 5 Jul 2008 13:12:03. Local standard time in your area: 5 Jul 2008 02:12:03. Location with respect to nearby cities: 384 km (239 miles) WNW (287 degrees) of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. No tsunami issued at this time.
Jul 4, 2008 - 7:54:14 PM
New eruptions from southern Chile's Llaima volcano forced Chile's government to declare a ‘Red Alert’ Thursday for residents of nearby towns. The advancing lava flow is 50 meters wide and has already stretched more than 2 kilometers down the volcano’s slopes.
Jul 4, 2008 - 10:54:10 AM
In the wee hours of August 1, the moon and the Sun will pass each other for a breathtaking full solar eclipse, but U.S. residents won't be able to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon because of their location on the planet. San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum is broadcasting the eclipse to the masses, however, combining science and technology by streaming the eclipse on virtual world Second Life.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:52:40 AM
Record cold and snow two years in a row! Must be that “human-caused global cooling” we heard about in the 1970s! No, wait, the current hysteria is “human-caused global warming”! Environmentalists are confused! Read books on astronomy, history, geology, geography and archaeology. You will see that global climate has never been static. It has been constantly changing for the past 4 billion years.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:46:09 AM
The next soil sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich. A team of engineers and scientists assembled to assess TEGA after a short circuit was discovered in the instrument has concluded that another short circuit could occur when the oven is used again.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:37:33 AM
Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA's comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Jul 4, 2008 - 8:33:21 AM
Volcanism has played a more extensive role in shaping the surface of Mercury than scientists had thought. This result comes from multispectral imaging data gathered in January 2008 by MESSENGER, the latest spacecraft to visit the sun's innermost planet.
Jul 3, 2008 - 8:00:13 PM
